Nearly 30 years ago, an elementary school student in Sacramento, California, wrote a letter, shoved it into an empty glass seltzer bottle, and tossed it into a neighboring body of water. In December, the mysterious missive sparked the curiosity of another young boy, who found the bottle near a river in Mendocino, California.

“Hi—My name is Chris. I am 10 yrs old + in the 5th grade,” the note read. “Call me when you find this to let me know where it floated to shore.” Chris also included his phone number, along with the date: September 5, 1988.

According to Inside Edition, 5-year-old Ryder Goggin and his mother, Heather Baird, were out walking when they discovered the bottle in the sand. Ryder was apparently “hoping it was a treasure map,” Baird told the news show. Instead, they found Chris’s perfectly preserved note tucked inside a plastic bag.

Ryder and his mother tried to honor the sender's wishes. They dialed the attached number, but found that it had been disconnected. Public records revealed that it had once been the phone line of a man named Cliff Farnsworth in 1981. However, the mother-son duo didn’t find any other documents yielding clues about Farnsworth’s identity or whereabouts.

Still, Ryder and his mom weren’t deterred, and hope to track down Chris, who would now be in his thirties. “I’d love to know where his life took him, and the circumstances behind him putting the bottle in the water,” Baird said.

*****UPDATE*****

Mystery Solved! Meet the Woman Who Wrote 27-Year-Old Message in Bottle Found on Beach

Czech archaeologists have unearthed an ancient funerary boat near the Abusir pyramids south of Cairo, officials said today, in a discovery that could shed light on shipbuilding in ancient Egypt.

The discovery of the more than 4,500-year-old remains of the wooden vessel, which archaeologists believe belonged to a prominent member of society, was made at the Abusir South cemetery, an antiquities ministry statement said.

While members of the team were clearing a mastaba or ancient tomb, they found parts of the 18-metre-long (59-foot) boat covered in sand and lying on a bed of stones, the ministry said.

"This is a highly unusual discovery since boats of such a size and construction were during this period reserved solely for top members of the society, who usually belonged to the royal family," the director of the Czech mission said in the statement.

The remains were found buried near the mastaba's southern wall, indicating the "extraordinary social position of the owner of the tomb", Miroslav Barta said.

The boat's length and pottery found with it shows that it could be from the end of the third or beginning of the fourth dynasty, the ministry said.

"The wooden planks were joined by wooden pegs that are still visible in their original position. Extraordinarily, the desert sand has preserved the plant fibre battens which covered the planking seams," it said.

"It is by all means a remarkable discovery," Barta said.

"The careful excavation and recording of the Abusir boat will make a considerable contribution to our understanding of ancient Egyptian watercraft and their place in funerary cult."